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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of FindeSicle Paris,Used
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A brilliant look at turnofthecentury Paris through the first indepth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to lifea world of culture, glamour and privilege. The Wall Street JournalGenevive Halvy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhaume de Chevign; and lisabeth de Riquet de CaramanChimay, the Comtesse Greffulhethese were the three superstars of findesicle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, 'transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style.' All well but unhappily married, these women sought freedom and fulfillment by reinventing themselves, between the 1870s and 1890s, as icons. At their fabled salons, they inspired the creativity of several generations of writers, visual artists, composers, designers, and journalists. Against a rich historical backdrop, Weber takes the reader into these women's daily lives of masked balls, hunts, dinners, court visits, nights at the opera or theater. But we see as well the loneliness, rigid social rules, and loveless, arranged marriages that constricted these women's lives. Proust, as a twentyyearold law student in 1892, would worship them from afar, and later meet them and create his celebrated composite character for The Remembrance of Things Past.
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